Tomes, Read-a-thons and Translations discussion

This challenge is to read books in translation. How many many original languages in translation can you read this year? Add a post, and update your post as you finish each book. Let us know what you think of the book, maybe provide a star rating.

Good luck.

1. German: The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn, finished 01/10/24, translated by Melody Shaw.
The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers, 03/18/24
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, translated by Stanley Corngold, read 08/11/24

2. Estonian: The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk, translated by Christopher Moseley

3. Ukrainian At a High Cost, translated by Nataliya Krynytaka, read 02/05/24

4. Hungarian: The End by Attila Bartis, translated by Judith Sollosy, read 02/11/24

Embers by Sándor Márai, translated by Carol Brown Janeway

5. Italian: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver, read 02/29/24

6.. Bulgarian: Belene - The Bulgarian Gulag, by Stefan Botchev, translated by Hans-Stefan Kruse, read 03/09/24
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, read 05/13/24

7. Arabic (Palestinian): Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translation by Elizabeth Jacquette


8. Finnish: Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo, translated by Herbert Lomas, read 04/16/24

9. Russian: Death of the Snake Catcher: Short Stories, by Ak Welsapar, there was no language of originally published in the book, it could be Russian, Turkmen or Swedish, read 05/29/24

10.French: The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter 06/19/24

In the Mothers' Land by Élisabeth Vonarburg, translated by Jane Brierley

11. Japanese: The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Asa Yoneda, read 06/20/24

Sanshirō, by Natsume Sōseki, translated by Jay Rubin

12. Swedish: Osebol, by Marit Kapla, translated by Peter Graves, read 09/15/24

13. Korean: Counterweight
by Djuna, translated by Anton Hur

14. Norwegian: The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, read 11/6/24

15. Portuguese, Brazil: Ancient Tillage by Raduan Nassar, translated by Karen Sherwood Stotelino, read 12/11/24

Countries around the world (not in translation)

1. Peru: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, read 02/04/24

2. Nova Scotia, Canada: The Winter Wives by Linden MacIntyre, 03/26/24

3. Australia/Cambodian refugees: Others Were Emeralds. 04/30/24

4.Dublin, Ireland: Ulysses by James Joyce, 07/12/24

5. Mauritius: Riambel by Priya Hein, read 09/16/24


Total: 26 books, 15 languages (as of 12/11/24)